British Waterways - Maintains 2,000 miles of canals and river navigations.
Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office - Produces the Astronomical Almanac, the Nautical Almanac, Astronomical Phenomena, the Star Almanac and the UK Air Almanac.
Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Information on maritime matters, Merchant Shipping Notices, Marine Guidance Notes and Marine Information Notes.
Marine Accident Investigation Branch - Provides information on the work of the MAIB, which is responsible for investigating all types of marine accidents, both to ships and to people on board them.
DEFRA Environmental Protection: Marine - Information on the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs activities co-ordinating marine environment policy.
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maritime Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Maritime
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Maritime If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Maritime
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Maritime Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Maritime
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Maritime America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Maritime
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maritime He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Maritime
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Maritime The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Maritime
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Maritime "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Maritime
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Maritime He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Maritime
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Maritime Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Maritime
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Maritime He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Maritime
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Maritime A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime
